Restore the Military

West Point was built to produce warriors. So was Annapolis. So was the Air Force Academy. At some point, the mission changed — and nobody voted for it. In this episode, Doug Truax (West Point graduate) and Will Thibeau break down exactly what has happened to the officer formation pipeline: critical race theory in academy curricula, ROTC programs held hostage by campus DEI mandates, and a military...

Is the military paying its warriors what they're worth? A Pentagon staff officer behind a desk and an infantry platoon leader who took fire yesterday earn the same base pay. In this episode, Doug Truax and Will Thibeau break down the Elite Warrior Incentive Program — a proposed structural overhaul of how the military compensates its combat arms personnel — and why the current pay table sends the w...

In 2015, the Marine Corps completed the most comprehensive study ever conducted on gender-integrated combat units. The results were unambiguous — and then they were ignored. Doug Truax and Will Thibeau break down the Ground Combat Element Integrated Task Force findings, what happened when the data collided with Obama-era policy, and why Congress is now attempting to legislate sex-neutral fitness s...

The Supreme Court struck down race-conscious admissions in 2023. The service academies are still operating like it didn't happen. Doug Truax and Will Thibeau break down the legal exposure, the DEI architecture embedded across the Department of War by directive and instruction, and what a real statutory prohibition looks like — with enforcement teeth, audit authority, and consequences. The window t...